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    By Owen Egerton  October 23, 2019
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    Welsh writer Jo Lloyd wins £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award.

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    By Julia Dixon Evans  September 11, 2019
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    Bob Eckstein Draws His Way Through the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference

    By Bob Eckstein  August 29, 2019
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    By Eleni Theodoropoulos  August 28, 2019
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    A Reading Series That Challenges Calls for ‘Civility’

    By Meher Manda  August 28, 2019
    Counterculture

    Jim Marshall’s Iconic Photos from the 1969 Woodstock Festival

    By Michelle Margetts  August 15, 2019
    Diversity in Literature

    Fourteen-Year-Old Marley Dias, Tireless Promoter of Diversity in Literature

    By Matt Grant  August 15, 2019
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    Ocean Vuong (and his mom) steal the show at the second biannual Asian American Literature Festival.

    By Paul Aster Stone-Tsao  August 5, 2019
    Reading Across America

    Eclipsed, a Wandering Reading Series, Finds a Home

    By Janelle Greco  July 31, 2019
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    Of Poetry and Pilgrimage: Queer Writers Staying Hopeful in Madrid

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    In The Black Clown, a Langston Hughes poem gets a modern revival

    By Aaron Robertson  July 26, 2019
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    Behold a new literary festival in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley!

    By Bethanne Patrick  July 17, 2019
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    To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway failed Scout.

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    Three takeaways from Ocean Vuong’s wonderful conversation with Alexander Chee.

    By Corinne Segal  June 6, 2019
    On Borges

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    At last night’s Authors Guild benefit, calls to support authors in a troubled democracy.

    By Corinne Segal  May 16, 2019
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    Hungover and happy at Minnesota’s new book festival, Wordplay.

    By Ryan Chapman  May 15, 2019
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